Scotland does not have a Himalayas-like climate, as claimed when a Demiguise farm is revealed. Also, demiguises are described as wild and ape-like in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them; the fic treats them as some sort of invisible domestic sheep.

Marks & Spencer is not the stuffy and upper-class department store presented it the fic, when in reality M&S is closer to J.C. Penney. The author might have confused it with Harrod's, which is that stuffy and upper-class, and more.

In one scene, Neville and several characters use a National Express East Coast train as part of a journey to Gretna Green. In 1997/98, the route from King's Cross to the North was controlled by Great North Eastern Railway...and the far more convenient way to get to Gretna Green by train is via the line from Euston to Carlisle.

The blood transfusion in Chapter 10 of DAYD, done without any attempt at cross-matching bloodtypes, and with two people donating blood, was quite risky, with about a 35% chance Colin would die from bloodtype incompatibility. Now, a 65% survival rate may not sound so great, but it isn't that bad for a dire emergency, and it is justified in that none of the characters are trained medics.

The commonest blood type in the British Isles is O, which can donate to anybody, followed closely in England by A (not so closely in Scotland, which averages 51% O to England's 47%). Ernie is Scots and Neville, as a Yorkshireman, is from the north of England, meaning that there's a good chance one or both of them are Type O. (There's also a 3% chance that Colin is Type AB, which can receive from anybody.) The Rh factor seldom causes problems unless an Rh- recipient has been previously sensitized by an incorrectly cross-matched transfusion or by an Rh+ pregnancy (neither of which applies to Colin). These odds help explain why early blood transfusion experiments were successful up to about half the time, with very primitive techniques and no real knowledge of what they were doing.

What's especially annoying about it, in retrospect, is that in A Peccatis, the healers are clearly shown (in a flashback to the aftermath of the Battle of Hogwarts) as borrowing Muggle medical supplies and techniques, up to and including advanced triage, with no real in-story attempt at explanation. WTF???

Sluagh is set in 2003. The Troubles ended in 1998. It did take a while for things to really calm down, but the depiction of the grimy, lawless, war-torn Belfast in Sluagh is, quite simply, anachronistic at best.

Maven

01:38:54 AM Jan 9th 2012

I think they'll have to be several different flavors of "Artistic License", which is a polite way of saying something is all screwed up.

Maven

01:50:30 AM Jan 9th 2012edited by Maven

The blood transfusion thing is somewhat subjective and attracts Natter, so I'm going to put it back on the YMMV page.

It had to happen. Somebody scammed the scammer. He's now caterwauling about "his" DAYDverse Wikia material being sold as an e-book on Amazon.com, and swearing up, down, sideways, forward and backward that he knew nothing about it.

Possible, since according to Wikipedia this sort of thing has been going on at Amazon for about five years. But given the author's track record, there remains room for reasonable doubt.

Update: it's also available as a Nook on Barnes & Noble.com, credited to "Source Wikia" - which isn't a publishing house but seems to mean "taken from a set of Wikia pages". This has...interesting implications. It could mean that someone's been shopping the material around, or it could mean that nothing on a Wiki is safe from being pirated.

A Peccatis seems to be underway again, although I have seen most of the "latest" chapter more than a year ago on the author's LiveJournal pages. I'm not sure I like where it's going - it looks like it will take out all of the previous generation before we find out Whodunnit.

Please let's not have any comments on the main or even YMMV pages about the author's personal life - if we consistently Nattered about such things, the pages on Richard Wagner and other creators with unsavory private lives would just be filled with cruft.

Main: Just the relevant tropes.

YMMV: Arguments over the quality of the work(s).

Discussion: All the other stuff, until and unless someone says to shut it down.

Iaculus

11:14:22 AM Jan 2nd 2012edited by Iaculus

The thing about other creators with unsavoury private lives, though, is that said lives aren't so intimately linked to their work. Wagner, for instance, did not crib the Ring Cycle from the mythology of the cult he'd previously been heading. Reality Subtext and similar tropes are usually fair game for the main page - it's just that Thanfiction's Reality Subtext is a tad more... well... batshit insane than most.

Maven

02:55:50 PM Jan 2nd 2012edited by Maven

You should read more about what Wagner worked into the Ring Cycle (and other operas) from his private life - it would probably amaze you.

I don't doubt in the least that there's a seriously disturbed individual behind it all - I just don't think it is seemly or appropriate to drag it into the main pages.

In any case, isn't it more of an "Irreality Subtext", if there can be said to be such a thing?

Maven

10:28:47 PM Jan 5th 2012

Speaking of "batshit insane"...would you believe he had the brass nads to write an essay on "Child Abuse in the Daydverse" and cram it with so much Natter that it wound up being useless and meaningless? And still claim to have "done a lot of research into the topic"?

After the recent shocking events in California [1] I think we can reasonably assume that A Peccatis is a Dead Fic - not because of Author Existence Failure (he survived), but because Author Has Too Much Real Life Shit to Deal With.

Iaculus

02:50:36 PM May 27th 2011edited by Iaculus

He was the one who got shot in the foot, was he? Or were the victims friends/relations?

Maven

03:31:11 PM May 27th 2011edited by Maven

He was shot in the foot (or ankle), that is verified. Three other people are dead - and that has been verified also. It is totally unclear whether Thanfiction was an innocent bystander, an unintentional catalyst, or in any way a cause of what happened. (I tend to think he accidentally catalyzed a dangerously explosive situation, which is a middle of the road position.)

There's apparently a VERY long, VERY convoluted and VERY crazy backstory behind it all - and another thing that is absolutely unclear is to what extent, if any, he had succeeded in putting it behind him, and what effect, if any, the insistence on tying his past to his tail like a string of tin cans had on him and the people closest to him.

If you really want to know more, try Web searches on "Victoria Bitter", "Thanfiction", and "Turimel". It's very unpleasant reading and left me with the clear impression that neither of them is playing with a full deck. (And by "neither" I mean Blake and Turimel.)

Iaculus

05:53:13 PM May 27th 2011

Hold on, what does Turimel have to do with anything? Apart from being a crazy stalker with a possibly-justified grudge who's currently gloating over this news in a decidedly unseemly manner, I mean.

Maven

06:57:07 PM May 27th 2011

I'm not sure, but I think Turimel was the one who exposed "Andrew Blake/Thanfiction", as "Amy Player/Victoria Bitter/this and that bizarre alias". She's been going all Inspector Javert on him for years, getting him fired from jobs (or digging up and publicizing old dirt that gets him fired from jobs), causing him to feel like he has to move on, etc. And she's also a blatant transphobe, absolutely refusing to refer to him by the proper pronoun (on the specious and flimsy excuse that "this may also be part of the scam"). Yes, she's now gloating obscenely that she "knew something like this would happen some day". It's really disgusting.

As for Mr Blake, I rather suspect some combination of bipolarity, schizophrenia, and/or Dissociative Identity Disorder - but I'm not a shrink.

Neither one has said more than a word or two, if that, about the third victim, who it seems merely had the misfortune to be employed in the house as caretaker to the (presumed) shooter's elderly disabled father. I find that distasteful on both sides.

I don't want to get into an edit war, but I think the inclusion of the Ron The Death Eater trope is unwarranted, so I got rid of it. If general consensus is that is should be there, please re-add it, but I think, at the very least, some discussion is called for.

Iaculus

07:24:17 PM Jan 28th 2011

I'd dispute it for different reasons. Yes, Snape is much more evil in this fic (up to and including trying to assassinate some of his students), but judging by the author's comments, this seems less a deliberate attempt to character-bash and more a case of accidentally going way overboard.

Dragnew

05:02:55 AM Jan 29th 2011

I remember once reading an... well, essay may not be the right word, but a discussion of sorts by Thanfiction about why he wrote Snape the way he did. Unfortunately, I can't seem to track it down any more, which is a shame, because it made a lot of sense (to me, at any rate).

Oh dearie me. Yep, that's classic Ron the Death Eater there. Particularly regarding its assumption that Snape was personally responsible for the actions of a bunch of rabid Death Eaters put under his command by Voldemort. And speaking as someone who's had nasty (or at least abrasive) teachers in the past, there's a big difference between threatening to put down a student's pet and actually trying to kill a student via poison.

I'm going through trying to make the article a bit more balanced (Yes, I'm a fan of the 'fic, but that doesn't mean I can't edit fairly). I'm tempted to delete the "Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male / Yandere:" entry.

Why? Because it seems to be inspired by the incident in HBP where Hermione set a bunch of angry birds on Ron. Not deleting straight up, because any attempt at defending the fic without providing a 'solid' reason is leapt upon and removed with vigour. Since this trope isn't included in the Canon pages, I see no reason that it should be here- or if it should be, it shouldn't be quite so viciously critical. (There does seem to be quite a bit of bias in the article, on both sides of the fence, and a lot of that should probably be cut down on. I know we aren't The Other Wiki, but the article is somewhat riddled with poorly researched Take Thats)

Iaculus

04:09:15 AM Dec 9th 2010

Honestly, I'd say that it's fair to add that incident to the main Harry Potter page, assuming that Hermione didn't get a big What the Hell, Hero? moment for it (been a while since I read the books).

And there is a difference in severity, too - the bird incident was unpleasant, sure, but there's a difference between that and setting someone on fire and then strangling them with a carnivorous plant. One's painful, the other was nearly lethal.

Iaculus

04:15:54 AM Dec 9th 2010edited by Iaculus

Also, while I agree that you were right to remove the Take That, you might still want to make note of the fact that Hans Belsen was named after the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. I think it's worth mentioning.

I'd do it myself, mind, but the page is still too big for my connection to handle editing for.

I'm afraid this is an example of Hollywood Durability. Ever see a 1950's movie called "Botany Bay"? There shouldn't have been much left of the hero after what he was put through - not only mercilessly flogged, but keelhauled *twice over* and then confined in a leaky brig with icy seawater constantly seeping in - he should have been shark-bait.

Somebody else quibbled hard about the believability of the "blood transfusion" scene with Neville and Ernie both donating to Colin. The odds are nowhere near as good as Thanfiction purportedly claimed (that link is broken and the FAQ is GONE), but not quite as bad as the other person said. Ideally it's best to have an exact match, but in a real emergency (which this was) Type O will generally do the job long enough to get the victim somewhere he can be stabilized. And Type O is by far the commonest - given their ethnic backgrounds, Neville had just under and Ernie just over a 50% chance of being that type. (Ernie might even have known his blood type if it was required as part of the wedding preparations, though he wouldn't have understood its significance unless a Muggle explained it to him.) Complications like Rh and Kell factors usually matter only when the victim is female and negative for one or both of them, and the main risk isn't to *her*, but to any children she may later have.

There's one other little quirk to the odds: in the unlikely event that Colin was type AB (it's by far the rarest), he could receive from *anyone*. (Cecil B. De Mille Failed Medical Boards Forever with exactly this situation in "The Greatest Show on Earth".)

It's still a helluva reach, though, and a single donor - preferably Ernie - would have been better. And better still if he and Susan had gotten their blood typed and he had asked the Muggle medical person what "Type O" meant. Chekhov's Gun, anyone?

Iaculus

05:43:17 PM Apr 7th 2011

You might want to amend the page with some of that yourself, then.

Maven

09:35:31 AM Apr 8th 2011

I ran the odds as best I could, not being a professional statistician, and posted the results. Seems the previous troper had it just about backward - though I may be overlooking something and the possibility of Epic Fail is still disturbingly high.

I also removed the gratuitous slam and broken link - Than's estimate did seem excessively optimistic (he's not a statistician either), but there was one 19th century experimenter who had a survival rate of 5 out of 10.

Iaculus

09:38:28 AM Apr 8th 2011

Fair enough. Looks a little dense, and could possibly be streamlined, but I lack the relevant knowledge to do so myself, so I'm cool with leaving it as is.

Maven

10:20:02 AM Apr 8th 2011

So it gets moved to YMMV, which is probably where it belonged in the first place. No harm, no foul.

Iaculus

04:05:05 PM Apr 8th 2011

Yeah, I only noticed that a bit after I posted on this discussion. Unfortunate that those little red dots don't always show up for YMMV pages.

Rape as Drama: It's never explicitly stated, but the bruises and bite marks that Crabbe and Goyle left all over Lavender's body would lead you to this conclusion.

This work treats assault on Lavender just as seriously as most of its other material, and that episode doesn't play a major role in the rest of the story. So the trope about playing up a sexual assault for dramatic value doesn't apply here.

Hollywood Homely: In the books, both Neville and Hannah are a bit pudgy. In DAYD, Hannah's supermodel hotness was concealed by the school robes, which made her - but none of the other girls - look fat, and Neville replaces all of his fat with muscle, helped by him being starved for weeks as part of a punishment.

Both he and Colin think that when Colin and Dennis Creevey go home for the holidays, they'll find their parents murdered, but he doesn't bother to stop them or give them any protection. After they go home and find their parents murdered, the Creeveys go on the run, and end up hiding at their muggle friend's house. Neville and Co. go to rescue them, Colin is bleeding to death from being splinched, but they escape, with the muggle helping as best he can as Death Eaters begin breaking in. Despite him being right there next to them, they don't bother to take said muggle with them. Later, as Colin recovers from nearly dying, Neville berates him for having nearly died while being part of Neville's grand cunning plan, to the point that Colin breaks down in tears.

Is the personal target for Snape's murder schemes, even while his grand tactical genius means that he's made it that noone can ever, under any circumstances, find out or tell anyone who's in Dumbledore's Army using a New Powers as the Plot Demands version of the Fidelius charm.

without consulting or involving her, and ignoring her fears about her family

by the men, Lavender is found having sex with her boyfriend. The one shot More Realer is worse: In DAYD's sequel, Sluagh, Hermione spends about 5 chapters being tortured and raped, described in graphic detail, finally setting herself on fire to escape (she got better). In the one-shot, Ron basically forces himself on her, and she accepts this, because up to that point, he'd been patient about her request not to have sex. She's flinching away, but he just keeps massaging her shoulders, applying sensual kisses, and all sorts of things, all without her consent. Ugh!

Even if you had a case about small parts of the language there, it's not vandalism, and there's no way you should be deleting it all and attacking the people who added it on the main page itself

86.154.188.134

09:48:28 PM Aug 12th 2010

Further, compare this page, after the whitewash, to the page on Harry Potter - It seems that Canon can be criticised, but if you add anything perceived as critical to a Fan Fic page, you will face Internet Backdraft.

Iaculus

07:13:26 PM Aug 13th 2010

Reverted some entries, and edited others to be less ranty and more in-keeping with the wiki's (admittedly loose) standards.

71.171.75.170

10:31:40 PM Apr 6th 2011edited by Maven

Neville's not quite that much of a Jerk Stu. Yes he does carry the Idiot Ball re: the Creevey boys getting a Nasty Christmas Surprise, but Colin lets him think that he (Colin) has his options all planned out, while juggling a whole lot of distracting information at the same time. (Any mention of Bellatrix Lestrange, in any context, is at that point still enough to give Neville a short-circuit between the ears. And Colin dropping the bombshell that she's his aunt by marriage....) Neville has enough wits left to make Colin promise to contact him immediately if anything is or goes wrong - but both of them mistakenly think Colin can handle it, and he can't.

As for the Muggle, even if they had the time to think of it (Hannah almost did) and were willing to take the unprecedented risk (no one knows if Muggles can be Side-Along Apparated or if they'd be Splinched to death), he breaks away from the group to turn on his stereos to cover their escape, and they're out of time to do anything but just scram as he tells them to.

And at the time Neville reams Colin out for what were really stupid mistakes, he's numbed himself out completely with Percy's old nerve potion. Mr. Weasley finds this so suspicious that he rings in Kingsley Shacklebolt to find out if they're dealing with the real Neville or an impostor - and makes Neville own up to doping himself to the eyeballs. The chapter ends with Neville admitting he's been a Jerkass and preparing to apologize as humbly as necessary.

Gran Longbottom later shows Neville how he should have handled it, after his own colossal screwup of bolting for Willow Creek after narrowly escaping execution. First she welcomes him home - then she slaps him and reams him out.

Looks like a good page to me. I'm not seeing anything that makes it cutworthy...

SomeSortOfTroper

02:24:16 PM Jun 22nd 2010

There's been some back and forth editing on subjective points but these neither dominate the page nor leave a bad taint in the final effect. Some back and forth is natural for a wiki and stabilises to an equilibrium, usually.

In any case, that is not a reason for a cut. It is a reason for a clear up, an examplectonomy, a page locking, a really big talking too and maybe a bad but it is not a reason for a cut.

theladyisatiger

04:56:45 AM Jul 27th 2010edited by theladyisatiger

As the first Justifying Edit has been made on the page I'm going to rev this back up again. You guessed it, it's the Wall Banger. My understanding of this trope is that it is for events, plotlines etc that have just about everyone experiencing the work looking for the nearest piece of gyprock. Can it truly be said that the organisation of the coup is in fact that bad, or is it major Your Mileage May Vary? I think my position is fairly clear on this, but I'm not about to start an edit war, I'd just like to edit or delete it based on a consensus from everyone. And then lock the page.

MotherFingSnake

09:56:24 PM Oct 14th 2010

Why should it be cut? If edit wars were reasons to cut, any pages about popular stuff would be cut. Twilight would be first, probably.

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